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Subject:Re: Numbered list misbehaviour in Word97... From:"Price,David (X)" <priceda -at- ALLENBROOK -dot- IIX -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 9 Nov 1998 14:46:29 -0500
Has anyone written a VBA macro that they'd like to share that will
convert legacy Word 97 docs to use SEQ field codes?
David Price
Senior Technical Writer
Allenbrook, Inc.
Lowell, Massachusetts
> >
> >4. Use SEQ or LISTNUM fields for all your numbering. This is what I
> >and many other documentation professionals do. You make a little
> >macro that plops in an AutoText containing the field. You need one
> to
> >put in the field that rests numbering to "1" and another to put in
> all
> >the subsequent fields that increment the number. This method is
> >rock-solid stable and portable without problems across Mac- and
> >Windows-Word all the way back to Word 2.
> >
> >Because of the inherent limitation of the list templates being stored
> >in the individual registry, you can never get Office 97's list
> >numbering stable enough for professional use.
> >
> >
> >John McGhie <john -at- mcghie-information -dot- com -dot- au>
> >Consultant Technical Writer
> >McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
> >Sydney, Australia (GMT +10 hrs) +61 (02) 9626 1048
> >
>
